At only £399.99 online the Acer Aspire 5720 is set to be one of the most popular laptops for sale this christmas. It features a 1.4GHz dual core Pentium T2310 processor, 2GB of ram, 80GB hard drive, and all the usual extras with laptops. But how suitable is it for a christmas present? Is the Acer Aspire 5720 Z worth buying? We take a look.
Acer have brought out the Acer Aspire 5920G, a Core 2 Duo based glossy black with white interior sleek laptop. This laptop is based on the very popular 5920 series of laptops, but has nice extras such as a HD DVD drive and a very nice (for a laptop) 256mb nvidia geforce 8600M graphics card. The Acer 5920G is marketed as “probably the best home users laptop currently available” and it does certainly have very good specs. So lets take a look at it.
Everything now a days is going wireless. It is just so much more convenitent than being tied down with unnecessary wires. This wireless keyboard and integrated touchpad is a new offering by KeySonic that provides a very small and handy solution for anyone needing to control their computer while not at a desk. It runs on the 2.4GHz wireless frequency, and contains all they keys that you would expect to find (minus any media keys). But how well does it perform? We take a look
XTracPads have released a new desktop mouse surface, similar to their Ripper product. However this mat is aimed more at the (even more) professional gamer, with a larger surface area, making it ideal for those gamers who always seem to end up sliding over the edge of their mouse mats in a middle of a game. Today we take a look at it and see how it performs.
Toshiba have released their new laptop, the Toshiba Satellite Pro L40-12R, a celeron-m based system clocking in at an impressive 1.86GHz, and a very low price of under £400 (check out prices on Play.com). Today we check it out and tell you all about the Toshiba Satellite Pro L40-12R laptop.
The new Sapphire 2900XT 512MB graphics card has been reviewed over at XSReviews.co.uk.
ATI were well behind nVidia when it came to releasing their DX10 hardware. 6 months passed between the introduction of the 8800 range from the green guys before the boys in red brought their 2xxx series of cards to the table. Even then, the king of GPUs at the time, the GTX, was still way out of the 2900XT’s league. However, many have claimed it is a fantastic mid-high range solution; let’s see if we concur.
Read it here.
XSReviews.co.uk have posted a new review of the Kingwin Mach 1 ABT 800MA1S
When it comes to choosing a PSU there are many manufacturers to choose from, who all claim to have the ideal power solution for your high powered system. Post people won’t bother searching around and will go for a tried and tested brand or the most well known one. Today I have with me a PSU from Kingwin who might not be the biggest and baddest company out they are trying to make a big splash with their latest range of PSUs aimed at gamers and enthusiasts alike. Let’s see how their 800w Mach1 fares.
Read it here.
Last week we took a look at the Sony Vaio VGN-N38E/W laptop. This week we are taking a look at its older brother, the Sony Vaio VGN-N31M/W. This core 2 duo T5300 based system with 1GB of ram and 120GB of hard drive space has upon initial looks great specs for a really good price (£549.99). It comes with all the standards, 802.11gb wifi, Vista Home Premium, a 15.4″ TFT display etc. But how does the Sony Vaio VGN N31M/W do in a review? We find out!
We got this laptop thanks to Play.com, where it already has a customer rating of 4 out of 5 stars so we’re expecting good things from this laptop!
Today, thanks to X Trac Pads, we’re reviewing the MouseGrips v2. We have all been in that situation where you’re playing a game (or even just browsing the web!) and you get sweaty palms, or you’re eating greasy food at the same time and holding onto your mouse can be a bit of a pain. Well that is where these Mouse Grips can help you out. They’re 10 small super grippy bits of rubber that you can stik your your mouse (or joystick, track ball etc) to help with grip. Today here at Techneek we are going to take a look at them and see if they’re worth the money.
Today we’re taking a look at the Samsung SM226BW 22 inch widescreen monitor.